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Alex Keath

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Reports tonight that Adelaide is in the hunt to sign Alex Keath, as the Victorian cricketer weighs up his sporting future.

Keath played for the Murray Bushrangers in the TAC Cup and was a Gold Coast selection in its initial squad chosen more than a year before their introduction into the AFL but chose cricket ahead of football but seems to have fallen out of favour with the Victorian Bushrangers and is tipped play cricket this summer in South Australia.

There is a Demon connection because Keath has played his club cricket with the Melbourne Cricket Club.

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    he's given no indication that he's not going to remain trying to become a cricketer.

    he was a supremely talented junior, but hasn't played a competitive game of football for a long, long time.

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    Amazing how time flies isn't it?

    For those who don't remember, Keath was a 196-7cm CHF type who was pre-listed by Gold Coast as a seventeen year old. He declined to play for them and signed on with the Bushrangers to play cricket instead. While he had a fair bit of success with the Australian Junior cricket side playing with guys like Pat Cummins, he didn't kick on and has now been cut from the Vic squad.

    Keath is now eligible to be listed as a Category B rookie, that being a player crossing from another code to play AFL. Despite being an elite junior, he's been out of the game long enough to qualify. This means that he can go to any club he likes outside the draft and be paid outside the salary cap for two years while they see if he's still got his footballing mojo. This is the same path Mark Blicavs took to Geelong.

    Even though we're reasonably well off for talls, I really hope Melbourne is one of the clubs trying to talk him into crossing back over.

    AFL article HERE.

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    Amazing how time flies isn't it?

    For those who don't remember, Keath was a 196-7cm CHF type who was pre-listed by Gold Coast as a seventeen year old. He declined to play for them and signed on with the Bushrangers to play cricket instead. While he had a fair bit of success with the Australian Junior cricket side playing with guys like Pat Cummins, he didn't kick on and has now been cut from the Vic squad.

    Keath is now eligible to be listed as a Category B rookie, that being a player crossing from another code to play AFL. Despite being an elite junior, he's been out of the game long enough to qualify. This means that he can go to any club he likes outside the draft and be paid outside the salary cap for two years while they see if he's still got his footballing mojo. This is the same path Mark Blicavs took to Geelong.

    Even though we're reasonably well off for talls, I really hope Melbourne is one of the clubs trying to talk him into crossing back over.

    AFL article HERE.

    I agree RM, Alex Keith was a disappointment, 'batting for the other team', as it were.

    I hope we can talk him into coming here, & we throw him a lifeline... the new development team here, I think, is second to None.

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    Well I hope he can bat!

    interesting now since the ashes fiasco? what he's thinking with the recent test team retirements & changes afoot.

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    I believe he's decided to have one last crack at the red ball game over the next 12 months and if it doesn't work out will try his luck with the Crows in 2017.

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    Did you read the article?

    Adelaide are pretty much financing him to have one last shot at cricket, before he then commits to them if it doesn't work out.

    As a gun junior he's a pretty decent prospect for a Category B rookie but I'm not big on paying guys who won't even commit. Plus he was likely to leave Victoria to get involved with another states cricket program.

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    Did you read the article?

    Adelaide are pretty much financing him to have one last shot at cricket, before he then commits to them if it doesn't work out.

    As a gun junior he's a pretty decent prospect for a Category B rookie but I'm not big on paying guys who won't even commit. Plus he was likely to leave Victoria to get involved with another states cricket program.

    Not a bad lark really - if he fails at Cricket again this year he throws in the towel and walks in to an AFL club. Not an opportunity too many are presented with I wouldn't think.

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    Not a bad lark really - if he fails at Cricket again this year he throws in the towel and walks in to an AFL club. Not an opportunity too many are presented with I wouldn't think.

    He's already failed at cricket, despite being given unbelievable opportunities.

    My guess is that it will be the same with footy.

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